[The pharmacodynamics of theophylline (euphylline)].

A single intravenous administration of 2.4%-10.0 euphylline to 35 patients with obstructive affections of the lungs entailed a broncholytic effect in large airways in patients with reversible obstruction under sub-therapeutical theophylline concentrations in the serum.

Cardiac microdialysis measurement of extracellular adenine nucleotide breakdown products during regional ischemia and reperfusion in canine heart: protective effect of propranolol against reperfusion injury.

Using cardiac microdialysis, we studied release of the adenine nucleotide breakdown products (ANBP) adenosine (ADS), inosine (INS), and hypoxanthine (HYP) into the interstitium of canine myocardium during 20- and 40-min occlusion of the anterior descending coronary artery and reperfusion. Dialysate ANBP concentrations reached maximum values not at the end of ischemia but in the first 10 min of reperfusion. The effect was more pronounced after 20-min ischemia.

[Microdialysis study of release of adenine nucleotide breakdown products into the intercellular space of the myocardium in ischemia and reperfusion].

Interstitial concentrations of adenine nucleotide breakdown products (ANBP)--adenosine (ADS), inosine (INS), hypoxanthine (HYP), in perfused rat hearts were measured during total ischemia and reperfusion by microdialysis technique. Progressive accumulation of ANBP in the interstitial space was observed during ischemia, but unlike INS and HYP, maximal ADS concentration was reached not by the end of ischemia but after the beginning of reperfusion. During reperfusion the qualitative accordance between changes in ANBP levels in the interstitial space and venous effluent was observed, but interstitial concentrations were several times greater.